I think it's good not to have to depend on financial compensation for every single thing in your life, if you can be comfortable or do well otherwise.

This allows quite a bit of its own kind of freedom even if maximum financial opportunity is not fully exploited. Perhaps even because you are not grasping for every dollar on the table at all times.

You can do things without having to know if they will pay off, and if it turns out big anyway you can make money as a byproduct of what you do rather than having pure financial pursuit be the root of every goal.